From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: should search ring contain duplicates?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 13:09:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICEELBDFAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85slnogtol.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
> > I am not interested in considering such a complex proposal.
>
> There is nothing complex about it (with the latest
> add-to-history) version.
>
> I was talking about a different proposal, one involving
> properties to control lengths. It was very complex.
>
> To be clear, was it this proposal from Juri:
>
> A related feature that specifies the maximum length of
> the history list
> uses the `history-length' _property_ of the history list _symbol_
> to override the default value of the _variable_ `history-length'
> for a particular history list. Exactly the same thing could be
> implemented for `history-delete-duplicates', i.e. the property
> `history-delete-duplicates' would override its default value
> for a particular history list.
I don't know how you gather this
I don't gather anything. It was meant as a question: "Was it this proposal?"
when Richard directly replied to the
posting of yours ... containing the proposal:
I think that for most uses of a history it makes no sense to keep
duplicates. I'd vote for making the default value be t and
letting those few modes where duplicates might make sense (e.g.
shell-mode?) bind it to nil unless the user has explicitly
specified otherwise.
IOW the option values could be:
nil - means never remove duplicates
t (default) - means remove duplicates, but this can be
overridden by a mode (e.g. shell-mode)
non-nil, non-t - means always remove duplicates (never override)
This would require code changes only for those few modes
that want to override the default (t). Plus a change to the
defcustom.
Precisely why I asked RMS for clarification. You make me glad I did, because
I suspect that you, too, might be confused in trying to interpret Richard's
message.
My proposal said nothing about "properties to control lengths", and I don't
think it was very "complex". Juri's email was a reply to mine, and he did
propose something fairly complex about controlling history-list lengths
using symbol properties. Juri changed the subject to "a related feature" of
his choice without changing the Subject line. In spite of Juri's mention of
"a related feature", there is no real connection between the two proposals.
RMS's reply (sent to me, you are correct) was not clear (to me). Richard has
told me before that he pays little or no attention to the To: destination. I
suspect that he perhaps hit Reply to my email but wrote his response to
Juri's after reading it (!?). Otherwise, I don't understand his reply.
Clarification welcome.
I think things would be clearer if people used emacs-devel (only) in the To:
field and cc'd any additional destinations (it would also be good if
emacs-devel was the default To: value for a Reply).
This is, I suspect, a good example of the confusion that can arise from 1)
not paying attention to To: and 2) not explicitly referencing what you're
talking about. #2 is more important than #1: be clear what you are referring
to.
This has been a long thread with multiple proposals. Richard: please clarify
your position(s).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-03 0:54 should search ring contain duplicates? Drew Adams
2006-05-03 7:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2006-05-03 8:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-03 12:48 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-03 13:53 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-04 10:12 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-04 10:29 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-04 12:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-04 12:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-04 12:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-05 22:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-05 23:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-06 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-06 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-07 20:41 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-04 16:05 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-05-04 16:23 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-04 16:36 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-05-04 21:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-03 15:04 ` query-replace in isearch (was Re: should search ring contain duplicates?) Dan Nicolaescu
2006-05-03 20:27 ` query-replace in isearch Juri Linkov
2006-05-03 20:43 ` query-replace in isearch (was Re: should search ring contain duplicates?) Richard Stallman
2006-05-11 3:45 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-11 11:57 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-11 14:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-11 21:52 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-19 3:05 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-20 22:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-21 4:27 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-21 0:55 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-23 5:17 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-24 2:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-25 22:47 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-29 6:39 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-30 9:28 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-31 0:40 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-12 4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-12 11:14 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-13 4:52 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-13 23:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-14 15:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-14 20:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-09 20:47 ` should search ring contain duplicates? Juri Linkov
2006-05-10 9:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-10 22:55 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-11 10:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-14 23:29 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-15 9:54 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-16 4:29 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-16 11:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-11 11:59 ` C-f in isearch minibuffer (was: should search ring contain duplicates?) Juri Linkov
2006-05-11 14:04 ` C-f in isearch minibuffer Miles Bader
2006-05-11 21:52 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-12 4:15 ` C-f in isearch minibuffer (was: should search ring contain duplicates?) Richard Stallman
2006-05-12 11:12 ` C-f in isearch minibuffer Juri Linkov
2006-05-13 4:52 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-03 14:18 ` should search ring contain duplicates? Stefan Monnier
2006-05-03 14:25 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-03 14:40 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-03 15:54 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-03 20:27 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-03 23:08 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-04 14:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-04 15:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-04 22:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-05 19:05 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-05 19:14 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-05 19:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-05 20:09 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2006-05-06 14:25 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-05 23:22 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-05 23:32 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-05-06 2:05 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-03 14:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2006-05-04 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-03 20:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-03 22:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2006-05-04 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-14 23:29 Richard Stallman
2006-05-14 23:46 ` Drew Adams
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